Ridge Circle Elem School

Ridge Circle Elem School operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Streamwood, Illinois, one of the schools within SD U-46. Current enrollment sits at 368 students spanning grades K through 6.

Within SD U-46, which oversees 51 schools and 34,036 students, Ridge Circle Elem School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Ridge Circle Elem School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment; the rest consists of 19% White, 8% Black, 8% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, On paper, Ridge Circle Elem School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at Ridge Circle Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ridge Circle Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 30.2%, a residual of -9.0 points.

Across the wider county, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ridge Circle Elem School is one of 1406 public schools in Cook County (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students).

Canton Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridge Circle Elem School. On composite proficiency, Ridge Circle Elem School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Ridge Circle Elem School's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 525 (now 368). The Black share of enrollment edged up from 4% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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